Land Use Data for Latitude -25.75 Longitude -54.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Estancia Don Oscar
Kuri'y National Reserve
Moisés Bertoni Natural Monument

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands
Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Soybeans
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Canete QuarryStone
Eldorado Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction
Farina Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction
Iguazu Clay PitsClay
Sand Pits Nw of Puerto IguazuSand and Gravel, Construction
Sand Pits Nw of Puerto LibertadSand and Gravel, Construction
Sand Pits Nw of WandaSand and Gravel, Construction
Sand Pits Sw of Puerto IguazuSand and Gravel, Construction

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.